The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-10-06

Philadelphia.
The Matt Clark Transportation com
pany and Matt Clark, it's general manager,
assign at Saltwater. Mimi, with $50, 900
liabilities and $50, 900 assets.
One more case OF cholera developed
among the Italians in quarantine who re.
Gently arrived from Naples.
The president has issued aproclamation
suspending tonnage duties Oh vessels and
produce Of Spain.
The secretary ofthe interior has reversed
the decision OF the commissioner of the
general land office, canceling G.. R. Coles
entry OF the southeast quarter, section "a,
township 1873, range Sc, Fargo district.
At Ronceverte, Greenbrier County> w.
Va, Mrs. Louise Eldridge, wife OF a promi.
nent citizen, was mysteriously assassinated
at her W door by ONE unknown person,
who fired a bullet from a Winchester rife
through her heart.
At New York, the jury in the case OF Dan
Lyons, who was tried for killing Joseph
Quinn, the athlete, returned q verdict OF
guilty OF murder in the first degree.
Riddleberger writes from Virginia that
he a no purpose except to act with the
Republicans in the senate next winter.
The president appointed Whitaker
Grant OF Iowa to be attorney of the Unit.
ed States for the District of Alaska, and
Charles M. Force OF Kentucky to be re-
ceiver OF public moneys at Lewiston,
Idaho.
The Minnesota Railroad commission
has issued it's first sharp and definite or
der for a specific reduction of freight rates.
1t is made upon the complaint of citizens
and commercial bodies representing towns
on the Iowa and Minnesota line of the Mil.
waukee road, and orders a reduction OF
rates of freight between st. Paul and those
cities ranging from s to 25 per cent.
A woman who gives the name OF Mrs.
Jennie Thorley was arrested in the Nation
al Exchange bank at Lynchburg. Va, while
attempting to have a check on the Now
Orleans National bank for SIS, 900 cashed,
The check 10 either raised or a forgery.
Howard Douglass of Cincinnati. supreme
chancellor OF the Knights OF Pythias, APP
pointed Hon. R. L.. c. White of Lebanon,
OF the Knights OF Pythias to fill the va
cancy occasioned by the decease OF Hon.
R. E, Cowan of st. Louis.
At Philadelphia, the Enterprise Brewing
company has made an assignment. Liza
bilities, $2O3, 900; assets, $4,000
Judge Colt OF the United States district
court at Boston, has dismissed the suit to
annul the Bell telephone patent on a de.
murrer, holding that congress has not Civ
en- the government by specific legislation
power to bring a suit to annul q patent.
This leaves the main question of the validi.
ty OF the Bell telephone patent unadjudi-
Gated, 1t will probably come up again un.
der some suit for infringement,
Chaplain Macomber, late of Fl. Custer.
now OF Fl. Sherman, Idaho, is delighted
with his new field of labor. He was kindly
received by the people OF tho garrison, and
has entered upon his work with zeal and
great encouragement.
Cardinal Gibbon, accompanied by Rev.
DR.. p. L. Chapelle of Washington. left
for the West. Portland, Or. is the cardi-
nails objective point, where he will confer
the pallium upon Archbishop Gross, but
he will stop en- route at Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul.
The government expelled from Rouma-
MIA a Bulgarian agitator who was making
O libelous attack upon Prince Ferdinand.
1t is reported that M. Grevy will shortly
resign the presidency of France.
A telegram from Santa Fe to the associ.
ated press says: The reported Apache out.
break in Arizona is not confirmed at mil
itary headquarters here. On the contrary
everything is reported quite upon the
Southwestern Indian reservation.
The treasury department has received
from United States Marshal Banks OF Mas
sachusetts vouchers showing the expendi-
ture OF over $33, 900 by his Office. 1t was
the marshal's delay in sending in his &C.
counts that made the treasury officials
somewhat apprehensive, and n the
amount for which he may now be liable is
hrD,.ohk xy;tbio %bo E,u;t ~ hso 'horIo hp
the vouchers sent in, the department hon
ored his draft for about $4,1OO.
Madrid Dispatch: Riots have
caused on the island of Ponapi, one vi the
Caroline group, in consequences Of expul.
sion OF the Protestant missionaries. One
man has already been killed. Reinforce
ments have been sent from Manila to re-
store order. Later advices say that the
Spanish governor OF Ponape has been kill.
ed and that many wounded have taken
refuge On q Spanish pontoon. The insur.
gents are masters of the island. Two war
ships have been sent to the scene.
The folling pensions have been granted:
Wisconsin,: j. NJ. Lewis, Muscoda; H.. Nc.
Donald, Star Prairie; N. O.. Fields, Chetek;
C. M. Osman, Barron. Minnesota: III. D.
Nancarrow, Albert Lea; F. Monk. Eitsen;
III. Sankin, Brownton, Dakota; 4, 8, Red
field, Canton. =
The war department has been aware for
some time o~fthreatened trouble at the San
Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona.
The situation there. bears a resem.
blance to that which existed at
the Ute reservation before Colorow's de-
parture last summer, and in both cases
the trouble appears to have arisen from
attempts by the state and territorial Off
cials to enforce. civil processes on the In.
dams. 80 -
Fourth. class postmasters appointed:
Dakota: Rohey, j. s. ,Roupe, Iowa:
Pleasant ValleJ B. w. Brown. Wisconsin,:
Beaver. W. N, Bishop Elmdale, w. T.
Harwood. <s ~-ze
The president has granted a pardon in
the case OF William Brooks, James Fitz.
gerald, Thomas Jackson, William Hender.
son, John Palmer, Reuben Goius and
George Horner, who were convicted in the
United States court for the Western dis.
trict oil Arkansas last August Of man.
slaughter, and whose sentence was sus.
pended. The pardon is granted on the
ground that the convicts had reason to
apprehend bodily harm from the men who
they killed.
Proposals were opened at the navy de-
partment for furnishing twenty-five sets Of
steel 8forgings for six.inch breech-loading
rifle guns, oil.treated and annealed, aggre.
eating about 136 tons, and Of domestic
manufacture. The Midvale Iron company
of Philadelphia was the only bidder. 1ta
proposal .was for supplying the forgings.